It looks like most jam session events rely on a core group of musicians to get the jam started and to keep it going.

Somewhat inconvenient for me, since the idea was to create a meeting place to form that group in the first place.

The right circumstances for what I want to do never seem to exist. It's frustrating. It's like reading books on how to start a business, only to realise that it's written by and for people whose circumstances were already pretty ideal for that.

You almost get the impression sometimes that people who get what they want in life are completely unaware of how much random chance contributed to their success.

You don't see many people giving advice on creating the right circumstances, because that's rather difficult to do.

The self-made man is a bit like Bigfoot. There are plenty of stories about Bigfoot out there, but no one you personally know has ever encountered him.